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Gothic Stories

see under Gothic Romances

Gothic Tales Of Love

"3 Gripping Book-Length Thrillers By Best-Selling Writers."

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1975: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)

GP Detective Stories

Total Issues: 3 (at least)

Issues & Index Sources:  early 1950s: Crime Fiction Index (in progress) (Missing: #2; any after #3)
Publishers:   Little Publications, Sydney
Formats:   quarto
Pagecounts:   64pp
Sources:   AustCmFc
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GPU News

One of America's first national gay publications, GPU News was a glossy covered magazine, which featured news, commentary, poetry and fiction written by many if not most of the leading gay and lesbian thinkers of the 1970's.

Issues & Index Sources:  1972 – 1981
Publishers:   Gay People's Union, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

GQ

see under Gentlemen's Quarterly

The Grabinski Reader

Issues & Index Sources:  #1, 198? – #5, 1990: Miller/Contento
Fictionmags Website

Graffiti

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1969 – c. 1977
Publishers:   Lenoir Rhyne College, Hickory, North Carolina

Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine

Authors include Poe, Longfellow, James Fenimore Cooper, R.H. Dana, Mrs Emma Embury. Circulation peaked at about 43,000 in 1840s. Published Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue" (May-1841); started as Atkinson's Casket; bought by Graham in 1839 and merged with Burton's Gentleman's Magazine.

Issues & Index Sources

  Jan-1826 – Dec-1840, as Atkinson's Casket
  Jan-1841 – Dec-1841, as Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine (The Casket and Gentleman's United)
  Jan-1842 – Dec-1842, as Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine
  Jan-1843 – Jun-1843, as Graham's Magazine of Literature and Art
  Jul-1843 – Jun-1844, as Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine: Fictionmags Website
  Jul-1844 – Jun-1855, as Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature and Art
  Jul-1855 – Dec-1855, as Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art and Fashion
  Jan-1856 – Dec-1858, as Graham's Illustrated Magazine of Literature, Romance, Art and Fashion

Publishers

  Jan-1826 – Apr-1839: Samuel & Charles Alexander
  May-1839 – Jul-1848: George R. Graham, Philadelphia
  Aug-1848 – Mar-1850: Samuel Patterson

Editors

  1826 – 1839: Samuel C. Atkinson
  1839 – 1840: George R. Graham
  1841: George R. Graham, Charles J. Peterson & Edgar Allan Poe
  1842: George R. Graham, Charles J. Peterson, Edgar Allan Poe, Mrs. Emma C. Embury, Mrs. Ann S. Stephens & Rufus W. Griswold (Poe resigned in April and was replaced by Griswold)
  Jan-1843 – Oct-1843: George R. Graham & Rufus W. Griswold
  Nov-1843 – 1847: George R. Graham
  1848 – 1849: George R. Graham, Robert T. Conrad, J.R. Chandler & J.B. Taylor
  1850 – 1857: George R. Graham
  1857 – 1858: Charles Godfrey Leland

Formats

  large format, ornately designed

Frequency

  monthly

Grain

Total Issues: 108 (to Dec-2002)

Publishes new Canadian and international writing, both prose and poetry. The annual Short Grain contest attracts over 1,500 entries. Circulation 1,300.

Issues & Index Sources:  1973 – present
Publishers:   Box 1154, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada S4P 3B4 (in 1998 - 2002)
Website:   www.grainmagazine.ca
Editors:   Elizabeth Philips, Sean Virgo, Dianne Warren, J. Jill Robinson (in 2002)
Email Address:   grain.mag@sk.sympatico.ca
Formats:   review
Pagecounts:   128pp
Frequency:   quarterly
Sources:   OHenAwdWeb (in 2002)

Gramercy Review

Issues & Index Sources:  1977? – 1980?
Publishers:   Los Angeles

The Grand Magazine

Total Issues: 422

The first real British all-fiction "pulp." Mainly fiction (although the first few volumes also featured some popular non-fiction).

Issues & Index Sources

  Feb-1905 – Apr-1940: Index to British Popular Fiction (in progress)
Fictionmags Website

Publishers

  George Newnes

Editors

  1905 – 1910: Alderson Anderson (posibly actually H. Greenhough Smith)
  1911 – 1920: C.W. Wingham
  1920 – 1931: Reeves Shaw (assisted by Alice Grant Rosman c. 1923-27 and H.W. Leggett 1927-31)
  1932 – 1940: H.W. Leggett (acting editor)

Formats

  standard on pulp paper

Frequency

  monthly (but combined March/April 1910 issue)

Sources

  AgeStory
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Grand Street

Began as a more literary review heavy on essays and some fiction; has shifted to a more art, features base. See A Grand Street Reader ed. Ben Sonnenberg (1986).

Issues & Index Sources:  Autumn 1981 – Summer 1999: Short Story Index
Publishers:   131 Varick Street, Room 906, New York, NY 10013 (in 1998 - 2000); 214 Sullivan Street, Suite 6C, New York, NY 10012 (in 2002)
Website:   www.grandstreet.com
Editors:   Ben Sonnenberg at outset; Jean Stein (in 1999 - 2002)
Email Address:   info@grandstreet.com
Formats:   review
Frequency:   quarterly
Sources:   OHenAwdWeb (in 2002)

The Granta [1889]

A Cambridge students' little magazine, and long a training ground for humorists who went on to greater things (among them F. Anstey, E. F. Benson, Barry Pain, A. A. Milne), it faded away in the 1960s; revived in very different format as Granta, 1979.

Issues & Index Sources:  1889 – 196?
Publishers:   Cambridge University
Frequency:   irregular frequency
Sources:   BritLit3

Granta [1979]

Total Issues: 79 (to Dec-2002)

Revived in 1979 by the energetic American owner-editor Buford (subsequently fiction editor of The New Yorker). In its modern guise it has published stories by Angela Carter, Salman Rushdie, etc, as well as poetry and much cultural journalism; circulation about 15,000.

Issues & Index Sources

  1979 – present: Short Story Index

Publishers

  Bill Buford, Cambridge; moved to London at some point prior to 1990

Website

  www.granta.com/

Editors

  1979 – 1995: Bill Buford
  1996 – 2007: Ian Jack
  2007 – present: Jason Cowley

Formats

  large digest; now pocketbook

Prices

  £5.99 (in 1990)

Pagecounts

  256pp (in 1990)

Frequency

  quarterly

The Grape-Vine Telegram

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1935 (FicMags: sample issue only)
Editors:   L. L. Richardson
Formats:   6" X 4.5"
Prices:   10c
Pagecounts:   16pp

The Graphic

Total Issues: 3266

Noted for its illustrations, it also published much serial fiction including Wilkie Collins, Anthony Trollope, Victor Hugo, Rider Haggard, Thomas Hardy ("The Mayor of Casterbridge" 1886 and "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" 1891), George Meredith, J.M. Barrie, H.G. Wells and John Buchan. Fiction dwindled in later years though Graham Greene was a young contributor.

Issues & Index Sources

  4-Dec-1869 – 21-Apr-1932: Indexes to Fiction: The Illustrated London News and the Graphic (fiction to 1901 only)
  18-Apr-1932 – 14-Jul-1932, as National Graphic

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Publishers

  1869 – 1893: E.J. Mansfield
  1894 – 1903: G.R. Parker
  1903 – 1932: The Graphic

Editors

  1869 – 1870: H. Sutherland Edwards
  1870 – 1891: Arthur Locker
  1891 – 1906: Thomas Heath Joyce
  1906 – 1909: W. Comyns Beaumont
  1909 – 1924: J.M. Bulloch
  1924 – 1926: Frank Le Couteur
  1926 – 1932: Alan J. Bott

Formats

  initially tabloid

Prices

  1869 – 1917: 6d
  1917 – 1920: 9d
  1920 – 1932: 1/-

Pagecounts

  24pp

Frequency

  weekly

Sources

  AgeStory

Graphic Classics

A series of books presenting great fiction in comics and illustration for contemporary readers ages 12 to adult.

Issues & Index Sources:  #1, 1999 – present: Miller/Contento
Website:   www.graphicclassics.com
Formats:   quarto
Prices:   $10.00
Pagecounts:   144pp
 

Grave Tales

Total Issues: 5 (to Dec-2008)

Issues & Index Sources:  #1, 1999 – present: Miller/Contento
Editors:   Richard Chizmar
Formats:   quarto


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